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During a year in which the National Health Service Litigation Authority hit out at the level of fees charged by solicitors handling clinical negligence cases, any initiatives that have the potential to reduce unnecessary NHS expenses should be seriously considered.
With approximately £1 of every £20 spent on prescription drugs being wasted, the prescription of medicines is certainly one area where there is scope to reduce costs. Realising this, one Scottish GP has suggested that the NHS introduces some form of recycling scheme for these drugs.
Dr James Douglas, a GP working in Fort William offered the following advice, "I think a recycling scheme would help everybody.
"It would help the health service because we would be winning on drug budgets, it would help the whole green recycling agenda in Scotland.
"It would also help the individual patient who perhaps would be getting a medicine that they were having trouble affording in the current economic climate."
The belief that unused medicines are a problem is shared by several leading figures from the UK pharmaceutical industry. David Gill, head of Angus Community Health Partnership comments, "Unfortunately it is quite common to find six, seven, eight months supply of asthma inhalers, for instance, in a cupboard.
"Patients seem to keep accumulating medicines for a rainy day."
However, a scheme like the one suggested by Dr Douglas is not without its own clinical negligence risks. One Scottish pharmacists explains, "Legislation would have to be changed to allow pharmacists to take medicines back in again.
"That could be done but then the manufacturers would be very unhappy.
"Drugs might have been sitting in a damp cellar or near a hot radiator and of course the manufacturer is then liable for the problems that could happen."
Medical negligence solicitors
Never more so than when we place our lives and health in the hands of medical professionals do we expect a scrupulous and professional service. Substandard and negligent medical care has the potential to ruin lives.
If you believe that you or a close family member has suffered ill health or injury as a result of such practices, you may be able to claim compensation.
The solicitors on our panel are among the very best in the UK and are all regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, a branch of the Law Society that has a rigorous Code of Conduct.
Unfortunately, the complexity of these cases means that we cannot represent them without passing on some fees onto the client. However, we always explain them in advance and do our utmost to keep them to an absolute minimum. All are reimbursable in a won case - as most of ours are.
In addition, we assure every successful claimant 100 percent compensation. We never take any cuts.
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